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Authors Like John Grisham: A Ranked List for For John Grisham Fans (Updated!)

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Looking for authors like John Grisham? Check out our list of authors that John Grisham fans are likely to enjoy. American novelist John Grisham has published more than 50 books and 28 have become number one bestsellers. While Grisham has plenty of literary range, he’s known primarily for blockbuster legal thrillers such The Pelican Brief, A Time to Kill and The Chamber. Many Grisham books […]

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Brad Thor

Authors Like Brad Thor: If You Love Thor’s Scot Harvath Series, You Might Enjoy These Books

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Since the debut of his first novel in 2002, Brad Thor has become the gold standard for fans of military fiction, terrorism thrillers and political thrillers. But what happens when ravenous fans polish off Thor’s terrific back catalogue? I’m often asked by fans: who are the best writers like Brad Thor? Brad Thor novels combine political intrigue, espionage, and compelling narratives with complex moral dilemmas

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Rogue Agent, a Military Thriller That Hits All The Right Targets

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The Bottom Line: Rogue Agent is a conspiracy thriller that hits all the right targets. Dan J Ford has created a compelling thinker and a one-man wrecking crew in his protagonist, Tom Wiseman.  Wiseman, a Former FBI agent and current Army criminal investigator is contacted by his former mentor and Quantico trainer five years after Tom’s FBI’s career ended badly. His mentor – who Tom feels betrayed him – calls about a case

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Doctor Lucifer, a Medical Thriller From One of The Year’s Most Exciting New Voices

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The Bottom Line: Doctor Lucifer potently blends the dynamics of a medical thriller with the sheer hysteria involved in a brutal cyberattack. Written with the authority of an insider, Lee is one of the year’s most exciting new voices.  Minutes before Anaheim internist Dr. Mark Lin goes about his usual morning rounds, he receives an alarming text message from the hospital administrator warning of debilitating spam attacks. Soon

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Operation Storm’s Eye, a Non-Stop Action Thriller by E.S. Benton

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The Bottom Line: An ensemble action thriller that delivers epic action scenes and enigmatic heroes. Operation Storm’s Eye, the first book in E.S. Benton’s Silent Codename Series, details the activities of an enigmatic armed strike force that calls itself Alpha Team. But Alpha Team isn’t directly affiliated with any government. “We are not soldiers,” one of its members declares. “We have no book to go

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Authors Like Sarah J. Maas: If You Like Maas’ Throne of Glass Series, You Might Like These Authors

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Looking for authors like Sarah J. Maas? If you love Sara J. Maas novels, here’s a list of other authors you might love as well. But first, who is Sarah J. Maas and how did she become so popular? From Manhattan’s upper east side, Maas is an American fantasy author best known for two series: Throne of Glass and A Court of Thorns and Roses.

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Blood and Mascara, Hard-Hitting Contemporary Noir by Colin Krainin

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The Bottom Line: Debut adult novelist Colin Krainin elevates contemporary noir with this gritty, hard-hitting thriller that will have readers anxiously awaiting a sequel. Highly recommended.  Washington D.C. private detective Bronze Goldberg specializes in infidelity cases. Just after capturing photographic evidence on a suspected philanderer named Carolyn, Bronze finds that a man she had sex with – a congressman named Billy Kopes – has washed

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Breaking Silence, an Electrifying New Crime Thriller by Alan Brenham

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The Bottom Line: Impossible to put down, Brenham’s latest thriller piles layer-upon-layer of red herrings before revealing a shocker that few will see coming.  Book 3 in Alan Brenham’s Claire Deveraux series begins in France, as the title character receives a potentially life-changing text: “You and your sister are two of a set of quadruplets.” The anonymous sender, AMZ, sends the same text to her identical twin sister,

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Code Red a Mitch Rapp book by Kyle Mills

Ranking The Best of Vince Flynn’s Mitch Rapp Books (Updated)

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In the late 1990s, when Vince Flynn published his first book featuring counter-terrorism hero, Mitch Rapp, few could have predicted the series would go on to spawn 24 novels (and counting) as well as movie adaptations. After Flynn died far too young at age 47, having completed 13 novels, the series continued through author Kyle Mills, who wrote nine additional Mitch Rapp books (some of

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